Hinge element for awning type window



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PAUL J. SPICER afigb. ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,327,426 HINGE ELEMENT FOR AWNING TYPE WINDOW Paul .I. .Spicer, 729 NW. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33311 Filed June 9, 1965, Ser. No. 462,540 2 Claims. (Q1. 49-74) ABSTRACT GF THE DISCLOSURE A window of the awning type having a window frame in which a plurality of vent frames are mounted for pivotal movement, each of the vent frames being carried by a pair of hinge plates. Each of the hinge plates consists of an elongated plate connected at one end to a vertically movable operator bar and attached at its other end to an end of the vent frame. The hinge plate has an intermediate lug or fin in the plane of the body of the plate and between the ends of the same and by which it is pivotally attached to the window frame, and the hinge plate includes a right angle flange, extending for a substantial part of the length of the plate. A second lug is provided on the plate at its end remote from the pivotal connection of the plate to the operator bar, the latter lug being attached to an end of the vent frame.

This invention relates to window devices of the type commonly known as awning type windows and wherein a plurality of vents are hingedly supported within a main frame to swing in a vertical plane to and from an overlapping relation with respect to each other.

Vent frames commonly employed in awning type windows are usually rectangular in shape having a header, a sill and connecting stiles and with the vent frame supporting a glass panel, the main frame being supported within a wall opening and a hinge element that is connected to a flange of the main frame, a stile of the vent frame and an operator bar disposed within the main frame and whereby to rock the vents simultaneously to an open and closed position.

A hinge element that is extruded from a suitable material, such as aluminum is provided with an elongated plate having an offset extension that is pivotally connected to the main frame and with an upper terminal end of the plate being pivotally connected to a conventional operator bar.

Novel features of construction and operation of the device will be more clearly apparent during the course of the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings wherein has been illustrated a preferred form of the device and wherein like characters of reference are employed to denote like parts throughout the several figures.

In the drawings:

FIGURE 1 is an exploded perspective view partially in section, illustrating fragmentarily a main frame and a vent frame and the associated hinge element.

FIGURE 2 is an exploded perspective view of an opposite side of the main frame, illustrating the hinge element and the operator bar,

FIGURE 3 is a transverse section taken substantially on line 33 of FIGURE 4,

FIGURE 4 is a horizontal section taken substantially on line 44 of FIGURE 3, and

FIGURE 5 is a perspective view of the hinge element.

Referring specifically to the drawings, there has been illustrated a main frame 5, usually of extruded aluminum. The main frame 5 includes a relatively wide face 6, having a rib 7 that is provided with a suitable yieldable weather stripping 8.

3,327,426 Patented June 27, 1967 A vent frame is generally illustrated as a whole by the numeral 9 and includes a header 10 and end stiles 11. The stiles 11 are normally connected together by a sill not shown. The stiles 11 and the vent frame 9 are provided with outwardly directed faces 12 that are apertured at 13 and 14 and threaded for the reception of threaded screws 15 and 16. Slidable upon an inner face 6 of the main frame and movable in any well known manner in a vertical direction, are operator bars 17. The operator bars 17 are disposed upon each of the faces 6 of the main frame and usually connected at their lower ends by any well known type of winding operator. The vent frames 9, the main frame 6 and the operator bars 17 are adapted to have connection with a hinge element shown particularly in FIGURE 5 and indicated as a whole by the numeral 18. The hinge elements 18 are obviously formed in right and left hand shape and are preferably extruded in a known manner to form an elongated plate 19, having its upper end 20 apertured at 21 to receive rivets 22, that pass through the apertures 21 and apertures 21 of the operator bars 17. The plates 19 are provided with a rib 23 for its major length and the plates 19 are extended beyond the rib 23 to form a lower connecting tongue 24 and an upper connecting tongue 25. The tongues 24 and 25 are apertured at 26 and 27, for fastening connection with the face plates 12 of the stiles 11. The tongue 25 is bent at a right angle, as shown at 28 and further bent at a right angle as at 29, forming a pivotal tongue that is apertured at 30 to receive a pivot 31 that extends through an aperture 32 of the wall 33 of the main frame 5. The pivot 31 may also be a rivet and it is contemplated, that the hinge element shall be fixedly attached to the main frame and the operator bar prior to the assembly of the several vent frames 9. The plate 19 may also be provided with a stiffening rib 34.

In the assembly of the device, the main frame 5 is usually assembled with the operator bar 17 and then the hinge elements 18 are connected as previously indicated first by pivoting the tongue 29 to the main frame 5 by the rivet 31 and the rivet 22 is seated through the recesses 21 and 21 to pivotally connect the hinge element to the operator bar. The hinge elements are disposed in accordance with the number of vents 9 to be disposed within the main frame. The main frame may then be installed within a wall opening after which the several vent frames are mounted within the opening of the main frame 5 and connected to the tongues 24 and 25 of the hinge elements 18 by the screws 15 and 16. It will thus be apparent, with the hinge 18 being connected to the vents, movement of the operator bar will swing the vents outwardly and inwardly to any desired degree and when in the innermost position, the several vents have overlapping relationship. Since most vent frames 9 are of generally common construction, they are usually channeled along the outer edges of the stiles 11 and a lower flange 36 of the stiles is preferably cut away as indicated at 35, to permit the flat engagement of the tongues 24 and 25 with the face 12 and since the flanges 36 have been cut away, the ribs 23 fi-ll the opening and the ribs 23 are of substantially the same height as the flanges 36 and in connected relation, forming a continuation of the flanges 36, to permit of the inner side of the stiles to have an abutting engagement with the weather stripping 8.

The hinge 18 is applicable to various types of awning type windows and the only requirement is that the stiles of the awning type windows be apertured and threaded as at 13 and 14 and to also remove that portion of the flange 36 for the full seating of the tongues 24 and 25.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that a very novel type of hinge element has been employed to hingedly support vent frames within a main frame constituting a window closure. The hinge elements 18 may be conveniently extruded and with each extrusion forming one right and one left hand hinge. The device is simple in construction, is exceptionally strong, easy to assemble and functions to hingedly support a plurality of vent frames Within any Well known wall frame to be shifted by the operator bar 17 at each side of the window and with the hinge elements 18 being pivotally supported upon the face of the main frame.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction shown, but that changes are contemplated as readily fall within the spirit of the invention as shall be determined by the scope of the subjoined claims.

I claim:

1. In an awning window, a main frame provided with jamb-forming members, a vent frame adapted to be pivotally supported in the main frame to swing in a vertical plane to and from an overlapping relation with other vent frames in the main frame, said vent frame having flanged end stiles, vertically movable operator bars mounted in the jamb-forming members at the pposite sides of the main frame, a hinge plate pivotally connected at one end to eachof the operator bars at each side of the vent frame, the hinge plates being hingedly connected intermediate of their length to the jambforming members, each hinge plate being of an elongated tapering shape, one end of each hinge plate being apertured for the passage of a pivot for connection to the operator bar, the hinge plate having outwardly extending flat tongues within the same plane as the plate, with a first of said tongues having a plurality of apertures and a second of said tongues having a single aperture, said apertures receiving means for attaching said firs-t and second tongues to the vent frame, said second tongue having an off-set end extending at rig-ht angles and then parallel with the plate to form an off-set pivot for the plate, the said off-set end being provided with an opening receiving means by which said end is pivotally attached to a jamb-forming member, the plate being provided for the major portion of its length with a rib, the flange on the end stiles of the vent frame being out way to provide for clearance for said rib, said rib being disposed in they ator bar, the plate being provided along one of its longil tudinal edges'with a right angle flange, a tongue at one end of the flange and projecting upwardly therefrom and disposed in the same plane as the hinge plate body, the

tongue having an aperture by which it is attached to an end of the vent frame, the flange being shorter in length than the body and the body having a part projecting beyond one end of the flange, said part being that having the aperture by which it is attached to the operator bar, the flange being provided at a second end with an angle piece having a tongue portion in the plane of the body and being provided with an aperture by which it is attached to one'end of the vent frame, said angle piece including a lug that is off-set from the last-mentioned tongue, said lug having an aperture by which the lug is pivotally at tached to a window frame in whichthe vent frame is disposed.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,324,454 7/1943 Huff 4988 X 2,490,438 12/1949 Huff 4974 2,751,641 6/1956 Josephson 4974 2,829,744 4/1958 OBrien 4991 X 2,830,335 4/1958 Miller 4974 X 3,044,131 7/ 1962 Reynaud 4982 X DAVID J. WILLIAMOWSKY, Primary Examiner.

REINALDO P. MACHADO, Examiner.

P. C. KANNAN, Assistant Examiner. 

1. IN AN AWNING WINDOW, A MAIN FRAME PROVIDED WITH JAMB-FORMING MEMBERS, A VENT FRAME ADAPTED TO BE PIVOTALLY SUPPORTED IN THE MAIN FRAME TO SWING IN A VERTICAL PLANE TO AND FROM AN OVERLAPPING RELATION WITH OTHER VENT FRAMES IN THE MAIN FRAME, SAID VENT FRAME HAVING FLANGED END STILES, VERTICALLY MOVABLE OPERATOR BARS MOUNTED IN THE JAMB-FORMING MEMBERS AT THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE MAIN FRAME, A HINGE PLATE PIVOTALLY CONNECTED AT ONE END TO EACH OF THE OPERATOR BARS AT EACH SIDE OF THE VENT FRAME, THE HINGE PLATES BEING HINGEDLY CONNECTED INTERMEDIATE OF THEIR LENGTH TO THE JAMBFORMING MEMBERS, EACH HINGE PLATE BEING OF AN ELONGATED TAPERING SHAPE, ONE END OF EACH HINGE PLATE BEING APERTURED FOR THE PASSAGE OF A PIVOT FOR CONNECTION TO THE OPERATOR BAR, THE HINGE PLATE HAVING OUTWARDLY EXTENDING FLAT TONGUES WITHIN THE SAME PLANE AS THE PLATE, WITH A FIRST OF SAID TONGUES HAVING A PLURALITY OF APERTURES AND 